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The Printed Book, Its History, Illustration and Adornment from the Days of Gutenberg to the Present Time.

The Printed Book, Its History, Illustration and Adornment from the Days of Gutenberg to the Present Time.

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The Printed Book, Its History, Illustration and Adornment from the Days of Gutenberg to the Present Time.

by Bouchot, Herni

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About This Item

viii, 312 pages.

Gilt decorated olive cloth, top edge gilt. With illustrations and facsimiles.


Corners, spine top and bottom, very slightly bumped. Sporadic foxing to title page, front and rear free end-papers, final leaf, and inner margins of first 4 pages. Text and illustrations clean.


With one hundred and Eighteen Illustrations and Facsimiles of Early Typography, Printers' Marks, Copies of Book Illustrations and Specimens of Bindings of All Ages. First edition in English of this important history of the book.

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Bookseller
John Atkins ES (ES)
Bookseller's Inventory #
0206
Title
The Printed Book, Its History, Illustration and Adornment from the Days of Gutenberg to the Present Time.
Author
Bouchot, Herni
Format/Binding
Cloth covered boards.
Book Condition
Used - Very Good
Quantity Available
1
Binding
Hardcover
Publisher
H. Grevel and Co.
Place of Publication
London
Date Published
1887
Size
8vo.
Weight
0.00 lbs
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Spine
The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
Cloth
"Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
First Edition
In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
Top Edge Gilt
Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
Title Page
A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...

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